se;lIvAjoch, in the Tyrol 



Nature seems to have delighted to treat this, the most exclusively mountainous country 

 in Europe, as a football for experimental kicks. In few territories on the face of the globe 

 have rivers cut deeper gorges, have titanic mountains been piled up into more bizarre shapes 

 unlike any other peaks — the unique Dolomites, with their wonderful spires and pinnacles, 

 being an instance. Nowhere else have moraines, landslips, freshets, vast inundations, and 

 terrible earthquakes tested more frequently, and in many cases ruthlessly destroyed, man's 

 handiwork. — W. A. BailliE-Grohman. 



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